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‘War weary’ Libya reflects 10 years on from Gaddafi and Arab spring Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nada Harib/Getty Images The last days of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi 10 years ago conjure up competing images of defiance, defeat and death. In March 2011, in one of his last public appearances and with rebellion against his regime gathering around him, the soon-to-be-deposed leader arrived at the People’s Congress in Tripoli riding an electric golf cart. Entering the hall, puffy faced and ageing, Gaddafi punched the air before delivering a lengthy and erratic speech to the gathered “representatives of the people.” Libyans, he thundered, would “fight to the last man and woman” against foreigners if Nato intervened.

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